641 | River Access Laws with Beau Beasley - Healing Waters, Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Presented By: Waters West, Yellowstone Teton Territory, Drifthook Fly Fishing
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Beau Beasley, author of multiple fly fishing books, Director at the Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival, and a super all-around guy, is here to enlighten us about River Access Laws. He's gonna be breaking it down today. You're gonna hear about what you should do if you get challenged by a landowner while fishing near a private property, who to contact if you have other big questions while you're out there, and how this applies directly to your state. Plus, you're gonna hear a bunch of great stories, and all of these stories are gonna help you clearly understand how to navigate these river access laws and what you can do to make sure you are ready to go for your next trip.
River access laws vary from state to state. There are some states where you can fish and walk up to the high water mark in some states where you cannot step foot in the water on private property. You also may have heard the word navigability, but do you know what it means and why it's So important? And where do you go for help? If you have questions today, we have one of the most knowledgeable river access all-stars in the country. And today he's gonna break it all down. So the next time you are on the water, you know exactly where to stand and how to navigate private property.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/641
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| 0:00.0 | River access laws vary from state to state. There are some states where you can fish and walk up to the high water mark in some states where you cannot step foot in the water on private property. |
| 0:11.6 | You also may have heard the word navigability, but do you know what it means and why it's so important? |
| 0:16.7 | And where do you go for help if you have questions? Today we have one of the most knowledgeable river access all stars in the country, |
| 0:22.6 | and today he's going to break it all down. |
| 0:24.4 | So the next time you're on the water, you know exactly where to stand |
| 0:28.2 | and how to navigate private property. |
| 0:30.8 | This is the Webfly Swing podcast where I show the best places to travel to for fly fishing, |
| 0:34.6 | how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip |
| 0:37.3 | and what you can do to give back the fish species we all love. Hey, how's it going? I'm Dave, host the Wet Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. I grew up around a little fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts in this country. I've also interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers than just about anyone out there. |
| 0:55.7 | Bo Beasley, author of multiple fly fishing books, owner of the Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival |
| 1:01.8 | and just all around a super guy. He's going to be breaking it down today. This is another |
| 1:06.8 | passion of his river access laws you're going to learn about today and all the details |
| 1:12.5 | around river access you're going to hear about what you should do if you get challenged by a landowner |
| 1:17.8 | while fishing near private property and who to contact if you have other big questions while |
| 1:24.1 | you're out there and how this applies directly to your state plus you're going to hear a bunch of great stories and all of these stories are going to help you're going to help you're out there and how this applies directly to your state. |
| 1:28.0 | Plus, you're going to hear a bunch of great stories, and all of these stories are going to |
| 1:31.6 | help you clearly understand how to navigate these river access laws and what you can do |
| 1:37.6 | to make sure you are ready to go for your next trip. |
| 1:40.8 | Bo always has a lot of energy, so it's great to have them back on the show. |
| 1:43.4 | Here we go. |
| 2:00.9 | Bo Beasley. You can catch them at Bobeasley.com. How you doing, Bo? Good, Dave. Thanks for having me back. Yeah, I think today it feels like every time we have you on, we're talking about a really important topic that I'm interested in. We recently had you on. We talked about Healing Waters, your book. This was back on Memorial Day. That was a pretty amazing episode there. And we had you |
| 2:07.4 | on before, and you've got the festivals going and things like that. So today we're going to |
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